Motilal Vora seeks to restrain Subramanian Swamy

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Motilal Vora on Saturday approached a Delhi court seeking to restrain BJP leader Subramanian Swamy from sharing information about the National Herald case on social media.

Swamy has filed the case against Vora, Rahul Gandhi, his mother Sonia Gandhi and others. In an application moved before additional chief metrop-olitan magistrate Samar Vishal, Vora said he has “time and again noticed that the complainant (Swamy) has been putting up various posts on social media regarding the daily proceedings of the instant case for the purpose of causing defamation of the accused and vilification of the court process”.

He submitted, “The complainant has been indulg-ing in loud and persistent publicity amounting to an interference with the administration of justice.”

The application, moved through advocate Tarann-um Cheema, said, “Before and after every date of hearing he (Swamy) unleashes hostile publicity through tweets, posts on social media or statements to the media.”

Meanwhile, the court recorded a part of Swamy’s statement as the complainant and posted the matter for further hearing on August 25 when it will record the remaining part of his testimony.

The BJP leader, in a private criminal complaint, has accused the Gandhis and others of conspiring to cheat and misappropriate funds by paying just Rs 50 lakh, through which Young Indian Pvt Ltd obtained the right to recover Rs 90.25 crore that Associate Journals Ltd owed to the Congress.

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